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Originally Posted by Schanz
Ok, It was actually T5, not T7 bit the same applies. The brown cap on the left was removed while I tested it and was replaced with longer leads due to the tight space. The ceramic "dog bone" is on the left.
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Are you referring to the round green thing with the oddly painted stripes on the top? If so, that's not a resistor, that's an early ceramic capacitor (not a ceramic disc capacitor, but a ceramic capacitor, although they work much in the same way as a ceramic disc capacitor does.) So with that in mind, you do still have a capacitor in there, it just doesn't look like what you were expecting it to, and from the looks of it, it might still be the orginal ceramic capacitor yet, because that style of ceramic capacitor was more common in the late 1940s, and early 1950s which is roughly when your radio was made. as for the "ceramic" tubular capacitor looking thing, that's a variation on the mica capacitor, rarely do they go bad, unless you have silver mica disease in your IF Transformers but even then that was mostly more common in the smaller IF Transformers that were installed in radios from the mid 1950s up until the early 1960s when they finally went over to solid state radios.